The Latest News Out Of Iraq - Full Overnight Update

Events in Iraq are changing by the hour, now that US combat boots are "on the ground", expect them to change even faster. For those looking to catch up on the most recent overnight news out of this latest civil war torn country, here is the full update.

Iraq produced 3.125mln bbl/d of crude oil in the period from January to May, exported 2.5mln bbl/d in the period January to May while Kirkuk crude output has been 300K bbl/d since March according to the Iraq Govt. (BBG)

India’s Iranian oil imports have risen 13.5% in May vs. April, above 2mln bbl, yet are down 0.6% in May vs. year ago. (Business Today)

BP’s CEO Bob Dudley has said their operations in Iraq are so far unaffected by violence, with non-essential production people having left but operations continue. (RTRS)

"I'm also a green; I'd like to seen the "West" wean itself off oil and leave the rag heads and jews to kill each other without consequence."

So it's settled, you believe in Unicorns, fairy dust, and the idea of defying the laws of physics with 12th century windmills, 19th century photovoltaic technology, and primeval algal blooms. Congrats!

If France, Germany, the UK, Portugal, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, etc.. can live on 25-35 bbl/day per 1000 then Canada, the US, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, etc dont need to use 60-119 bbl/day/1000.

Building cities with ski resorts in the desert is a fantasy land; in 50 years time they won't be able to cool, provide water for, or feed them. We're allowing the ME nations to build populations and military structures that will become very unstable when the oil eventually does run out.

They all got addicted to Lortab, now they're taking suboxone and Zoloft so they're only awake about 2 hours a day. They get up eat then watch dancing with the stars and crash again. Anti war left is gone with the wind right behind the middle class.

THe Syrian Air force has bombed several ISIS convoys, providing the SOLE country in the world at this point assisting. They know what the US / Saudi trained ISIS is all about though. There is a virtual blackout on this. FOx mentioned it yesterday briefly but it flies in the face of the MSM lies.

Uh, if we send combat troops it will be a hell of a lot sooner than that.

What I don't get is in the first Gulf War two fucking A-10s beat the living shit out of an Iraqi column. Someone please tell me that a decently planned air campaign couldn't take out an army advancing army of beheading SOBs.

in that bigger picture you have also to put the George Bush supercarrier that can safely enter the Persian Gulf, thanks to the fact that Iranian and US interests are now on the same side in Iraq. as often, politics makes strange bedfellows. welcome to the new US-Iran military partnership against religious fundamentalism. no /sarc necessary

... welcome to the new US-Iran military partnership against religious fundamentalism.

Welcome to the new US-Iran military partnership of religious fundamentalism against religious fundamentalism.

Iran is Shiite. The advancing rebels are Sunni. Both Islamic. To be fair, though - I suppose you could argue that one group is more fundamental than the other. But is that a distinction with any relevant difference?

I'd save (more like update!) the A-10 too, but we do have lots of alternatives, from cluster bombs to PGM to Apache choppers with hellfires, and of course drones drones drones.

A single B-1 could carry enough 2000lb PGM to turn a two mile column into a canal ... though I don't know that we have the dynamic targeting skills to do it quite that way, but we should - and we might.

Got Stingers? The CIA has been doling them out like lollipops. At least one American chopper in Afghanistan has been confirmed down due to a recent vintage Stinger missile - most were bound for Syria (ISIS?) but some got rerouted to Afghanistan.

Because, the "rebels" are adapting and evolving from when A10s meant shit, this new breed of fighter in the ME understands the the US military better then we understand the US military! When they conquer a city now, they are seperating the commanding officers, police, businessmen and others"collaborators" and executing them immediately, hense destroying any hope or investment we made in these people! We have lost literally 100's of billions in training and equipment, time and effort in just the last 72 hours over there!
Secondly they are using the tens of thousands of unarmed civilians as human shields as they march to the next city or strategic location! Hense rendering US air power ineffective, unless we want to slaughter thousands of women and children and "Iraqi military" marching on roads!
They have control of the power stations and refineries north of Baghdad, if they can cut off the airport inside Baghdad, they will essentially have Iraq conquered and under seige, and there won't be a god damn thing air power can do about it! Unless America wants to put another 500,000 men on the ground!
It's 100x worse then Vietnam from a logistical, geopolitical, and energy resource standpoint! We already spent 3-4 trillion over there and got absolutely nothing for it, had 50,000 men and women killed or wounded, oil is at 105 a barrel and will never go back,down, and we are exhausted, demoralized, and powerless to change the reality on the ground!!

Wasn't it amazing how the Patriot Act (because it's aimed at patriots), a four-inch thick piece of er, legislation, was ready to go some 48 hours after the cessna-trained boojiemen performed their magic?

why "full retard"? if you want the date when the US became a colonial power, then I'd say April 25th, 1898, Spanish–American_War. WC's 1913's date is imho just the financial update necessary to compete with the other Powers

1990 - End of the Soviet Union leaves US masters of the Universe without an enemy of their scale. Hilarity ensues.

2001 - 9/11

2008/2009 - ongoing...

There are plenty of other candidates: Vietnam, Iraq, Bush II's coronation by the supremes, etc. etc... Like all things, this has been a process, with each event laying the groundwork for the next. In the end, because we still have a society where most people have access to relatively convenient dietary calories and shelter over their heads, there has never been enough discomfort to cause unrest that seriously threatens the status quo. History will not judge this kindly, but by the time the unrest breaks out, people will focus on the immediate spark and not worry about the fact that the rot at the core of our system has been building for more than a century. Ours is hardly the first empire to find ourselves in this position. Same as it ever was.

For me it is 1913. Federal Reserve, Fed Income Tax, and popularly elected Senators. Those three things did the country in. The Federal government had imperial ideas before that with previous wars but it was held back before those three things and couldn't become the conniving imperial douche power that it is today without those three things.

1934 Silver Nationalization -US buys silver at .50 per oz sucking all the silver out of China and thus destabilizes their monitary silver standard setting them up for the Japanese invation and eventually Communism. This is after London ran the price of silver down to .24 per oz by 1931 and destroyed the Indian silver standard.

Here's what I think: the ISIS and Sunni coalition aren't going to try take Baghdad. They know they can't take it with the Shia majority in the city. They're going to consolidate gains. The Kurds will take more territory.

If someone in ISIS is smart, they'll call for a referendum to split the country into 3. Which should have happened 8 years ago. Instead the US installed this Shia regime that kept all Sunnis out of the government.

That would appear the best strategy for the Sunnis although they need to keep the Maliki thugs guessing regarding Baghdad or targets in Baghdad.

We need to stop referring to the Maliki faction as "the Iraqi Government". We are past that now. It's a sectarian conflict and the borders/living arrangements will have to be adjusted for a new reality, like it or not.

Obama and pals have succeeded in spreading chaos across the region and hastened the Iraq break-up, but it was slowly happening anyway, at least as far as the independence of the Kurdish region is concerned. The Sunnis were screwed in all this -- the US goal was the end of the Baathist Party, which pretty much meant the Sunnis and have favored the Shiites, resulting in this mess. Elsewhere, they push the Sunnis. Actually they just push chaos.

ISIS.... the peaceful freedom loving moderates we were backing in Syria..... training in Qatar and Jordan and funding via Saudi Arabia and Qatar... oh Qatar where Gitmo jihadis go to relax and prep for phase two..

Meantime the ussa is being invaded by an obama created (actually valery jarrett met with the foreign reps coordinating the "spontaneous" invasion) and obama, the constitutional "expert" disregards the requirement to protect the borders.

How many acts of TREASON does this man have to commit before congess acts ????????????

How many acts of obstruction of justice does he ahve to commit ????????????

I can see nothing at all that would suggest that the Goiter Ole Party would ever stand for anything but the next election. I utterly despise the Tory Loyalists of Beohner, McConnell, and the RNC. Yeah Glenn Beck preaches not to hate, but I'm pretty sure that the sympathizers for independence circa 1776 were not feeling brotherly love toward the King's government.

What passes for news these days is pathetic. In the olde days there would have been 'gumshoes on the ground' following the action and checking facts before releasing the stories. Today, if anyone tweets or uploads any kind of unsubstantiated report or video it becomes a headline story on national news or on one of the few remaining news organizations. As these assorted links show - we are close to having nothingness than tabloid news.

Ok this is the same group of assholes who brought you the Sandy Hook simulation.

Oh no! Iraq is...whatever. Ask yourself. In a world where they simulate school shootings, do you really believe some story they tell you about what's going on the far side of the world? If you believe the events, do you believe the meaning?

Everything they say is a lie. Everything they have is stolen.

Members of a previously unheard of group ride into town with a collection of brand new Ford F-350's. M'kay. Where did they get those?

the biggest mistake in all this mess is, imho, the US policy of treating all Baath party members in Iraq in the same way as Nazi party members were treated in Germany after 1945, though more efficiently. but this goes back to George Bush (the 2nd president, not the 1st supercarrier). of course, this might have been done on purpose, as many speculated, then

ok it is clearly another sunni shite war brewing so if ISIS is a saudi bunch of merc's Iran is being drawn in on purpose maybe it is China's turn to spank the US empires are not easy to maintain these days. can't imagine morale at the pentagon being too high with eastern europe and Iraq going tits up at the same time plus china and russia bold enough to flip us off when ever they want.
bullish

If this doesn't spell death for the USD and the fact that the rest of Western Europe is about to jettison from it leaving Israel and the U.S. to hang itself -I sure as hell don't know what does!

The Brits probably hate Iran as much as Israel with all the oil and gas projects over the past 35 years that could have been...

Good luck U.K. you've burned every conceivable bridge with Iran since 1953 your odds are worse than 1,000,000 to 1 but even you realize how badly you've fucked this one up for yourself and realize the necessity for change if you want to survive.

Hope they sold the crown jewels of secrets of the Mossad, CIA and NSA to Russia and China in order to repair the damage!

So now we get to watch the religion of peace EAT itself on a grander scale than usual. They've always been at it. Now they just do it in bigger groups with better weapons. All this because of archaic strictures against girls and boys doing what comes natually. All that pent up frustration has to have an outlet. So here we go. Fussy old men dressed in sheets telling Ahmad he can't do this and can't do that. But you CAN smite the neck of your enemy! Fatwah! God is Great! Nihilism writ large as payment due for the fears and prejudices of generations distilled to a death cult masquerading as religion.

In addition to starting a potential range war with Russia in Ukraine and Syria I hope every single American over there including the alleged 278 the Prez just sent get snuffed out like a candle. Anyone that would willingly draw a paycheck after Benghazi, Syria and now Ukraine deserve the worst kind of unthinkable torture and murder they have coming to them!

To the DOS and CIA over there among the 500 -Hope it was worth the money you got...

The only thing that could possibly make it any better is if we could put the White House and Capitol (all members and lobbyists) under a transporter beam to Mosul.

Modern Day Version - The enemy of my enemy and thier collective enemies are in no way my friend unless of course there are northern Iraq banks to rob or oil and related contracts which of course changes the calculus. Gold bullion will also be a determinent so long as it is sent to B of E or JPM in advance of friendship approval. If friendship is denied you will not be notified but we recommend you seek air raid shelter. Have a nice day!

I believe the correct way to approach Iraq would have been to lift the sanctions, let the country prosper to the best of its ability and let the Iraqi people deal with Saddam in what ever way they saw fit. Of course that scenario would not have been as much fun for the CIA and State Dept. freaks. Anyways, how much oil could we have bought for nearly $2 Trillion dollars. We pissed away $2 Trillion, did not get a quart of oil and now will have to pay increased costs for it. Yep, sure smacks of government efficiency to me....

Don't worry. Those US troops will be "advisers" (ala Vietnam) and "trainers" since the $25 BILLION spent training individuals unwilling to die for what is rated as one of the four most corrupt governments in the world apparently wasn't enough to get them fighting for a country that's a post-WWI creation of western powers. But it will certainly work this time, right?

All of the news coming out of Iraq as well as the US media outlets are total bullshit. Huffingtonpost post was called on the carpet for front paging the story using photo's from six years ago and pictures of people being shot in ditches were totally staged according to boots on the ground. The real story behind this event was an attempt to keep the Iraqi P.M. Maliki and a US puppet in gaining a third term.

According to their constitution a P.M. can only serve two consecutive terms. Maliki with help from the US staged this flase flg event in an attempt to gain the third term, but the blow back caught him and the US with their pants down because the Parliament refused to vote on a State of Emergency which would have given Maliki an extended term. Another interesting fact is that no where in the manipulated press in the good ole US of A, is there even any mention of recent elections. The new PM will be Chalabi.

Back in April, Iraq floated billions in bonds at a rate of $3.71 and their stock exchange the ISX will be open for business internationally come July 1st. Honestly if you were serious about taking over the country you would go after their oil producing capabilities and oddly enough they weren't touched. Want to make a financial killing of a lifetime? Buy the Iraqi Dinar which is currently 1166 to the dollar. When the new government that was just elected is seated this week, at a minimum the Iraq Dinar will RV at $3.71. Oh happy day.